solo exhibitions (selection)
2023
A Tide of Emotions, Vincom Center for Contemporary Art, Hanoi, Vietnam
The Soul Trembles, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen, China [Mori Art Museum touring exhibition]
The Ship of Memories, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
The Wall Behind the Windows, KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, Germany
Who am I Tomorrow?, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Dornbirn, Austria
Duo Exhibition: Song Dong x Shiota Chiharu, Yuelai Art Museum, Chongqing, China
Eye to Eye, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Hammer Projects: Chiharu Shiota, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Signs of Life, solo show, Galerie Templon, New York, NY, USA
2022
Invisible Line, Aros Museum, Aarhus, Denmark
The Soul Trembles, Museum MACAN, Jakarta, Indonesia [Mori Art Museum touring exhibition]
Silent Word, Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
Home to Home, Kishiwada Jisen Hall, Osaka, Japan
Circulating Memories, Beppu City Center, Oita, Japan
When I wake up in the morning…, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
In Memory, Gana Art Center, Seoul, Korea
State of Being, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
The Soul Trembles, Queensland Art Gallery of Modern Art (QAGoMA), Brisbane, Australia
Across the River, Landesgalerie Niederösterreich, Krems, Austria
Multiple Realities, Cistererne, Copenhagen, Denmark
Living Inside, Musee Guimet, Paris, France
Imperfect Game, NF/Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain
Letters of Love, MOCA Jacksonville, Florida, USA
2021
The Soul Trembles, Long Museum, Shanghai, China [touring exhibition]
Shape of Life, solo show, Naha Cultural Arts Theater NAHart, Naha, Japan
Tracing Boundaries, EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finnland
One Thousand Springs, installation during Japan Festival, The Royal Gardens at Kew, London, UK
Internal Line, Museum für Bildende Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
In the beginning was…, Planta, Lerida, Spain
Last Hope, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
Living Inside, solo show, Templon, Brussels, Belgium
The Soul Trembles, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan [touring exhibition]
Holding the Universe in the Hand – Two Person show with Leiko Ikemura, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Direction of Consciousness, Domaine de Chaumont-sur-Loire, France
Memory of Water, Collection at Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan
Connected to Life, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Lifelines, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [touring exhibition]
I hope..., KÖNIG Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2020
The Web of Time, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand
Navigating the Unknown, König Galerie, London, UK
Between Us, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea
Inner Universe, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
Lifelines, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Brasilia, Brazil [touring exhibition]
2019
The Soul Trembles, Busan Museum of Art, Busan, South Korea [touring exhibition]
Internal Line, Japan House, São Paulo, Brazil [touring exhibition]
Lifelines, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), São Paulo, Brazil [touring exhibition]
Me Somewhere Else, Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Counting Memories, Muzeum Śląskie w Katowicach, Katowice, Poland
The Soul Trembles, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Black Rain, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
Line of Thought, Museum Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg, Germany
Six Boats, Ginza Six, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Me Somewhere Else, Blain|Southern, London, UK
Artist’s Rooms: Chiharu Shiota, Jameel Arts Center Dubai, UAE
Embodied, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Art Projects 2018: Chiharu Shiota, The Wanås Foundation - Wanås Konst, Knislinge, Sweden
The Distance, Göteborgs konstmuseum - Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden >>
Beyond Time, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK
Remind of ..., NF / Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain
Form of Memory, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Butterfly Dream, Kyoto Art for Tomorrow 2018, The Museum of Kyoto, Japan
2017
Direction, KODE-Art Museum of Bergen, Bergen, Norway >>
Lost Words, Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin, Germany
Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan >>
Between the Lines, Het Noordbrabants Museum, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands >>
Destination, Galerie Templon, Paris, France >>
Under the Skin, Kunsthalle Rostock, Germany >>
Infinity Lines, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
Where are we going?, Le Bon Marché Rive Gauche, Paris, France
2016
Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Absent Bodies, Anna Schwartz Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Uncertain Journey, Blain|Southern, Berlin, Germany
The Locked Room, KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theater, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Rain of Memories, Ferenczy Múzeum, Szentendre, Hungary
Follow the Line, Mimmo Scognamiglio Artecontemporanea, Milano, Italy
Sleeping is like Death, Galerie Templon, Brussels, Belgium
2015
Follow the Line, Japanisches Kulturinstitut Köln, Cologne, Germany; Istituto Giapponese di Cultura, Rome, Italy [touring exhibition]
In the Beginning was… , Fundació Sorigué, Lleida, Spain
Searching for the Destination, SESC, São Paulo, Brazil
A Long Day, Artist Room, K21 - Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
Form of the House, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Lines of Memory, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
The Key in the Hand, Japan Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Works on Paper, Hadrien de Montferrand Gallery, Beijing, China
Seven Dresses, Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken, Germany
2014
First House, Zorlu Performing Arts Center, Istanbul, Turkey
Letters of Thanks, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló (EACC), Castelló, Spain
Over the Continents, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA
Chiharu Shiota – Maquette, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
il Gattopardo, Marseille Vieille Charité + Ballet National de Marseille, Marseille, France
Small Room, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
A Long Day, La Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Lucca, Italy
Presence in the Absence, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN, USA
Earth and Blood, NF / Nieves Fernández, Madrid, Spain
Dialogues, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
2013
Other Side, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
After the Dream, Carré St. Anne, Montpellier, France
Trace of Memory, Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Chiharu Shiota, Galerie Daniel Templon, Brussels, Belgium
Earth and Blood, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Letters of Thanks, Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
Collection+: Chiharu Shiota, Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney, Australia
Crossing Lines, Manege, Moscow, Russia
Red Line, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2012
Synchronizing Strings and Rhizomes, Casa Asia, Barcelona, Spain
Me as Others, Art Gallery Artium, Fukuoka, Japan
Other Side, Haunch of Venison, New York, USA
Labyrinth of Memory, La Sucrière, Lyon, France
Where Are We Going?, Marugame Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Contemporary Art, Kagawa, Japan
State of Being, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stairway, Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Infinity, Galerie Templon, Paris, France
2011
Drawings, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Chiharu Shiota | Memory of Books, Gervasuti Foundation, in cooperation with Haunch of Venison, Venice, Italy
Home of Memory, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
In Silence, Detached, Hobart, Tansmania, Australia
2010
Dialogue with Absence, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
Wall, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
One Place, Haunch of Venison, London, UK
Trauma, NF / Nieves Fernández, Madrid, Spain
2009
A Long Day, Rotwand Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Flowing Water, Nizayama Forest Art Museum, Toyama, Japan
Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Unconscious Anxiety, Galerie Christophe Gaillard, Paris, France
2008
State of Being, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Breath of the Spirit, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
Zustand des Seins/State of Being, CentrePasquArt, Biel / Bienne, Switzerland
Inside-Outside, Galerie Goff + Rosenthal, Berlin, Germany
Waiting, Goff + Rosenthal Gallery, New York, USA
2007
From In Silence, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Trauma / Alltag, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2006
Dialogue from DNA, Wildnis + Kunst, Saarbrücken, Germany
2005
Raum, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
During Sleep, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
When Mind Become Form, Gallery Fleur, Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
Zerbrochene Erinnerung, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Falling Sand, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
In Silence, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
2003
Dialogue from DNA, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art [a-i-r laboratory], Warsaw, Poland; Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology, Krakow, Poland (2004) [touring exhibition]
In Silence, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Bleibend von der Stimme/Behind the Voice, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
The Way into Silence, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
2002
Uncertain Daily Life II – Death Bed, Kenji Taki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
In Silence, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
2001
Chiharu Shiota, Kenji Taki Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
2000
Breathing from Earth, Kunstraum Maximilianstrasse, Stadtforum München, Munich, Germay